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This Program Will Make You Invisible (to Your Webcam):
Have you ever fantasized about pulling a vanishing act? One minute you're there, the next you're not. It's a fantasy that comes on especially strong, for me, when I'm stuck in a remote meeting. I'm sitting on my webcam, waiting for everyone to say their piece, and wishing I could just remove myself from the picture. Now, there's a program that will let you do just that.
It's called Disappearing People and it's the work of Google web engineer Jason Mayes. "This code attempts to learn over time the makeup of the background of a video such that I can attempt to remove any humans from the scene," Mayes wrote on his GitHub. "This is all happening in real time, in the browser, using TensorFlow."
[...] It's not perfect. When playing with it, I'd often see the bricked outline of my body moving across my room. It didn't remove me from the picture so much as cover me over with glitchy looking copies of my room. But it happens in real time, and that's still impressive.
Go here if you'd like to try removing yourself from the equation.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @05:41AM (1 child)
Only one glitch per cycle. And the glitch might not be noticeable if you pick the right time.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Tuesday March 03 2020, @10:42AM
Based on the scenario in TFS, I would have thought you would loop the footage that did have you in it, so your cow orkers wouldn't notice that you wandered off.